Tom Cruise career in pictures: Top Gun, Mission: Impossible, more

Tom Cruise belts out some '80s anthems this week for his role as rock god Stacee Jaxx in musical Rock of Ages.

The 49-year-old hasn't looked back since his breakthrough role in 1983's Risky Business - he's piloted lightning-fast jets in Top Gun, established himself as a blockbuster franchise star in Mission: Impossible and bagged a trio of Oscar nominations, most recently for his blistering turn in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.

To mark Cruise's return to the big screen, Digital Spy takes an in-pictures look through some of his most significant movie roles.

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Risky Business (1983) Cruise cemented himself as a movie star with this hit '80s comedy. Playing Chicago teen Joel Goodsen, Cruise got up to no good with Rebecca De Mornay when his parents left him home alone.
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